Case v. Bank’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 446 · 1879
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1988 · most notably Waters-Pierce Oil Company v. State of Texas (1909), National Bank v. Watsontown Bank (1881)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 15 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on MINOR v. the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria · Ware F. M. C. v. Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co. · Franklin Bank v. Steward
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘That Frank F. Case, receiver, do recognize the said Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana as creditor, * * * and that he do’pay the same or certify the same to the comptroller, to be paid Sh due course of administration; * * * and that the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana do receive, before further payment to creditors, its due proportion of dividends pro rata with those already paid to the creditors of the Crescent Orfy National Bank.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ Such, an officer is virtute officii intrusted with the notes, securities, and other funds of the bank, and is held out to the world by the bank as its general agent for the transaction of its affairs within the scope of authority evidenced by such usage, practice, and course of business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Beyond all doubt, the validity of their debt is established by the verdict and judgment; and, if so, it requires neither argument nor authorities to show that the order given by the circuit court to provide for the payment of the amount recovered was proper and correct.” Id. 450.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.